Re: [SLE] Experiences with Quest DSL?



On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 21:07 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I apologize that there might be a better place to ask this, but this is
> the best I can think of.

Not a problem.

<snip>

> Is it conceivable that Quest is running a protocol stack that is in
> some way not entirely compatible with Linux? I guess that would mean
> that the vast majority of their customers run other OSes (well, sad but
> true so far, though probably changing).

Not likely.


> I'm boggled by the whole thing. Any thoughts (or any other diagnostics)
> would be gratefully listened too. Quest says they can run some live
> tests but I can't visit this friend again till next week, so I'd like
> to have all the ideas in my mind when the time comes.

I highly recommend that Quest go on site and test the connection there
has to be something wrong with the connection. I have Sprint DSL and had
a similar experience and it turned out that I was "cross connected" with
another customer that caused my connection to drop every 10-15 minutes.

--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998


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